Describing environmental public health data: Implementing a descriptive metadata standard on the environmental public health tracking network

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 515-525

  Patridge, Jeff ^a,c   Namulanda, Gonza ^b  

^a Missouri's Environmental Public Health Tracking Team ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Missouri Office of Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Dublin Core Metadata Set; Environmental Public Health Tracking Network; Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata; International Organization for Standardization 11179

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STANDARD; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59449103689     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PHH.0000338363.20962.f5     Document Type: Review

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